("For the first time, the General Social Survey--a large, national survey conducted every two years and widely considered to represent the gold standard for public opinion research--shows a majority of Americans favoring the legalization of marijuana."

---Christopher Ingraham, the Washington Post, 3.4. 2015.)

("Forty-four percent of Americans say they have tried cannabis, according to a new Gallup poll.

The American research-based consulting company, which is best known for its opinion polls, says this is the highest percentage to admit to having tried the soft drug since it first started asking the question in 1969 — when only 4 percent said they had sampled it."

I also enjoyed some of the hashish that came from Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Nepal. The hashoil I smoked that came from Morocco greatly lifted my spirits and provided unique insight. "Bubble Hash" made in Berkeley gave me wonderful visions.

[Willie Nelson won 10 Grammy awards, and has appeared in 37 movies and TV shows. More than 40 million copies of his more than 100 albums have been sold. He has smoked marijuana for MANY years. Nelson is an outspoken advocate for the drug and has been arrested several times for possession of marijuana. He was arrested in 2006 for possessing marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms. His latest song is titled "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die".

---from an Associated Press news report, 4.21. 2012.]

Here is a list of some of the kinds of cannabis I have smoked that were obtained from "medical marijuana" stores in the San Francisco bay area. [I saved the labels.]

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SALES OF SO-CALLED "MEDICAL MARIJUANA" AT STORES IN BERKELEY:

I have seen marijuana contaminated by toxic insecticides that was purchased from (city-approved) so-called "medical marijuana" stores in Berkeley. I have seen marijuana contaminated with other toxic chemicals that was purchased from so-called "medical marijuana" stores in Berkeley. I have seen marijuana contaminated with toxic mold that was purchased at so-called "medical marijuana" stores in Berkeley. There are no enforced standards that designate who may or may not be so-called "medical marijuana" grower-sellers in the city of Berkeley. These for-profit privately-owned stores charge an obscenely high price for their questionable products. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT MARIJUANA CAN BE ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEDICINES IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!! (Depending upon the type and dose of marijuana, the route of administration, and the set and setting in which it is used.) BUT BEWARE: Greedy and/or stupid capitalists selling untested products grown by greedy and/or stupid amateurs ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE!

("...marijuana is not legal."

---Ed Rosenthal, interviewed by Paul Kilduff, The Monthly, December 2014.)

("Indeed, positive hits for pathogenic mold are already changing grower operations. 'You smoke ten random samples of cannabis and you've most likely smoked aspergillus [mold],' said Dave, one of the lab's two founders. 'It's in there, often at unacceptable levels. Now it's up to the industry to respond. We also are not in a position where we want to make enemies and piss people off. We want to see it happen in the best way for the movement and the industry to kind of just naturally evolve.'

While the distributed nature of California's cannabis supply network obviously benefits mom-and-pop growers, it doesn't encourage quality assurance. Consequently, Dave and his peers believe that some pot consumers are in danger.

'It's expensive to test every single thing that comes through the door — that's the price you pay with a decentralized supply system,' Dave said. 'But that's what you've got. You've got five pounds coming from here and two from there and one individual. I mean, a dog walks in the grow room, and wags its tail — anything can be coming off that dog's tail. It's gross. Fertilizers with E. coli. Compost teas that they don't make right, anaerobic tea that has elevated levels of E. coli and salmonella...There's no way that this is sustainable. All it takes is one story of immune-compromised people dying from aspergillus infection. The myth that cannabis hasn't killed a single person in 3,000 years is allowed to go on. Well, it's not cannabis that kills people, it's all the shit that's in it.'

[From "The Manhattan Project of Marijuana", David Downs, the East Bay Express, 3.4. 2009.])

---Michelle LaMay, chairwoman of the Teapot Party in Colorado, describing having to deal with the more than 3,000 people who have contacted her because they want to start their own cannabis business. [Willie Nelson was arrested in Texas for possessing marijuana on November 26, 2010. Following his arrest, Nelson founded the Teapot Party.] The quote is from an article by Eric Spitznagel, Bloomberg Businessweek, that was published in the San Francisco Chronicle, 11.20. 2011)

("We did $20 million in sales last year."

---Steve DeAngelo, executive director of Harborside Health Collective, a marijuana store in Oakland. DeAngelo was quoted by Kathleen Pender in an article, "Push to Protect Banks on Legal Pot Business". The San Francisco Chronicle, 5.25. 2010.)

("California's medical marijuana dispensaries now generate as much as $1.3 billion in sales and $105 million in state sales taxes each year, according to new---and dramatically increased---state sales estimates by California's Board of Equalization."

"The Board of Equalization earlier this year estimated medical marijuana sales at only $98 million annually..."

--- the Sacramento Bee, 5.8. 2010.)

(The Berkeley Patients Group is "a dispensary with about 10,000 patients in the Bay Area". In 2007 the DEA "pounced on a Southern California offshoot of the Berkeley nonprofit for distributing a federally controlled substance. Agents seized nearly everything on-site as well as $100,000 in funds in a bank account."

"The Berkeley dispensary actually got the money back after the City of Berkeley stood up for it. The city stated in a 2008 resolution 'seizures of assets of medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives have blocked payments of taxes to the state of California and the City of Berkeley.' The city asked federal authorities to back off and they did."

"Berkeley Patients Group, along with two other Berkeley clubs, net about $18.5 million per year."

---David Downs, the East Bay Express, 9.15. 2010.)

("The city of Berkeley filed a legal claim Wednesday in a federal asset forfeiture case against the landlord of a medical marijuana dispensary here, saying it would lose tax money from pot sales if the dispensary is forced to close."

---Doug Oakley, West County Times, 7.4. 2013.)

("Oakland's lawsuit said the closure would damage the city, which expects to collect more than $1.4 million this year in business taxes from Harborside and three other city-licensed dispensaries."

---Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 10.14. 2012. Seeking to prevent the forced closure of Harborside Health Center, a "medical marijuana" dispensary, the City of Oakland filed a lawsuit against the federal government.)

Years ago there was a legitimate drug testing laboratory in California where a user could anonymously have a sample of their "dope" tested. Unfortunately, such drug-testing laboratories were declared illegal by federal law enforcement officials and were forced to cease operation. The public no longer has access to any federally-certified drug testing laboratories.

Many of the anti-drug police say they believe that "harm reduction" strategies increase drug use and are thus unacceptable. Some anti-drug police believe that the world would be a better place if users of illegal drugs died...

("Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. Smoke a joint, lose your life."

---Darryl Gates,

Head of Los Angeles Police Department, speaking to a

United States Senate Judiciary Committee on September 5, 1990.

[Gates said the above because he felt casual drug users were guilty of "treason", according to author Martin Torgoff, writing in his book "CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME--America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000" (Simon & Schuster, 2004.)])

("In 1996, Newt Gingrich introduced a bill mandating the death penalty for bringing two ounces of marijuana into the country!"

[quote from a document published by Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform].)

("I'm a firm believer that drugs are the root of all evil."

---Conta Costa County [California] deputy sheriff Andy VanZelf,

quoted 10.4. 2009 in the Conta Costa Times by columnist Tom Barnidge. "VanZelf [a police officer for 23 years] ...was born to the job--his mother, father, and brother were cops--but that's not why he stuck with it. 'Putting bad guys in jail is very satisfying,' he said.")

("According to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report, in 2007 there were 872,721 arrests in the U.S. for marijuana violations."

---Adam Tschorn, the Los Angeles Times, 9.3. 2009.)

("It was downtown San Jose and another police officer had made a stop on three kids who were touring San Jose on a Saturday night. You know, driving around in circles like American Graffitti. And the officer pulled three kids out of the car and he didn't know but one kid panicked and tried to swallow a small bag of marijuana---and I pulled up just to watch and assist if needed and didn't realize what was going on either. And this kid died in front of us choking on a bag of marijuana. He didn't die because of marijuana, he died because he panicked over these stupid laws we have."

---former San Jose, California undercover narcotics detective Russ Jones, quoted by David Downs, the East Bay Express, 5.12. 2010. Russ Jones is a spokesman for the "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition" organization.)

(Because I am a disabled homeless person who has VERY little money, I cannot afford the fee that doctors charge to issue a recommendation that I be allowed to use "medical marijuana". Nor can I afford the administrative fee charged for the issuance of a "medical marijuana" card. Even if I had the proper paperwork, I am too poor to be able to pay the high prices the local "medical marijuana" stores charge. I have never grown marijuana. Because I am homeless I have no place where I can grow marijuana.)

A randomly-edited selection of approximately 700 of my pictures may be viewed by clicking on the link below:

Through 16 facilities, the visitor walks through a living space that will develop in each one absolutely different reactions. Through the exhibition and the different activities that complete it, we will reflect on the way in which art is currently related to reality. This exhibition moves away from the more traditional forms and plays with the performative practices to awaken the surprise of the viewer. Thus, the space of the CA2M becomes a place of direct experimentation of sensations that play with the visual and the sonorous reflecting on how the body responds to that type of stimuli.

This exhibition, conceived as an event, underlined the performativity and the way in which it works, the way in which it actuates itself. It included objects, audio-visuals and bodies. It was a continuous exhibition "live", since the installations, photographs, films, performances, debates, etc., inhabited the space of the museum.

So if my sister was a singer, this would be her album cover. I am continuing with my obsession with brick walls (obviously). I am happy with this shot, even thought it was super cold and it was starting to snow. I still feel like I am in a creative slump, hopefully by breaking through some roadblocks I will reach the next level.

Through 16 facilities, the visitor walks through a living space that will develop in each one absolutely different reactions. Through the exhibition and the different activities that complete it, we will reflect on the way in which art is currently related to reality. This exhibition moves away from the more traditional forms and plays with the performative practices to awaken the surprise of the viewer. Thus, the space of the CA2M becomes a place of direct experimentation of sensations that play with the visual and the sonorous reflecting on how the body responds to that type of stimuli.

This exhibition, conceived as an event, underlined the performativity and the way in which it works, the way in which it actuates itself. It included objects, audio-visuals and bodies. It was a continuous exhibition "live", since the installations, photographs, films, performances, debates, etc., inhabited the space of the museum.

Through 16 facilities, the visitor walks through a living space that will develop in each one absolutely different reactions. Through the exhibition and the different activities that complete it, we will reflect on the way in which art is currently related to reality. This exhibition moves away from the more traditional forms and plays with the performative practices to awaken the surprise of the viewer. Thus, the space of the CA2M becomes a place of direct experimentation of sensations that play with the visual and the sonorous reflecting on how the body responds to that type of stimuli.

This exhibition, conceived as an event, underlined the performativity and the way in which it works, the way in which it actuates itself. It included objects, audio-visuals and bodies. It was a continuous exhibition "live", since the installations, photographs, films, performances, debates, etc., inhabited the space of the museum.